Sentences with phrase «policy board voting»

Children who live in a small Carrollton neighborhood will still get automatic admission to Lusher Charter School next year, but only if they enter as kindergartners, based on a policy the board voted Saturday to extend to the 2011 - 2012 school year.

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The likes of the Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and British Columbia Investment Management Corp. have policies favouring the principle of one share, one vote.

They are asking for policies that most well run companies have adopted; things like majority vote standards, so directors are only elected to the board if a majority of shareholders want them there.

The unanimous vote by the California Air Resources Board has the support of a number of top politicians in the state, including Gov. Jerry Brown and several mayors, all of whom have pledged to resist the President's potentially damaging environmental policies, the New York Times reports.

Lael Brainard is a member of the U.S. Federal Reserve's Board of Governors and a voting member of the Fed's policy - setting committee.

Members of the Fed's Board of Governors are permanent voting participants of the Federal Open Markets Committee, which decides monetary policy for the US.

The Board recommends a vote against each of the following shareholder proposals based on broader policy reasons as set forth in Walmart's statements in opposition following each shareholder proposal.

These governance policies include the annual election of all Board members and a majority voting requirement for the election of directors.

He is also the author of several IGOPP policy papers, which offer new perspectives on a range of controversial issues including: Dual - class voting shares, Corporate Citizenship, The place of women on boards of directors, Say - on - Pay by shareholders, The Gordian knot of executive compensation, The Troubling Case of Proxy Advisors, among others.

In connection with a shareholder proposal made at the 2012 annual meeting of shareholders, the Company informed its shareholders that the Board had adopted a policy providing for majority voting for the election of directors in uncontested elections and that the Company would take steps to implement majority voting in its Articles and bylaws.

It also plans to introduce a majority voting policy in 2012, which would require directors to offer their resignations to the board if they fail to garner a majority of «for» votes in annual shareholder elections.

The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) will be holding its sixth policy meeting of 2017 from September 19 - 20, after the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System voted unanimously to leave its key interest rate unchanged in July.

SHARE director of law and policy Laura O'Neill said the only other directors she knows of who failed to win majority support this year were on the board of Quebecor Inc., where holders of class B subordinate shares voted just 43 per cent in favour of electing the entire board as a slate.

- Majority voting policies provide minority shareholders with greater influence over the composition of the board of directors, who are their key representatives.

Majority voting policies provide minority shareholders with greater influence over the composition of the board of directors, who are their key representatives.

And many corporations that have adopted some sort of majority voting have adopted policies that nevertheless allow incumbent directors to remain on corporate boards even if their reelection was opposed by a majority of shareholders.

The Board recommends a vote AGAINST a stockholder proposal seeking to have us adopt a policy requiring that senior executives retain a significant percentage of stock acquired through equity pay programs until reaching retirement age because our existing stock ownership guidelines and other compensation policies already effectively facilitate significant stock ownership by our executives, and establishing holding requirements based on a particular retirement age would not be in the best interests of our stockholders.

This is just perfect «Kyev Tatum, pastor of Friendship Rock Baptist Church in Fort Worth, called The T Board's vote «a dangerous precedent» because it only took a matter of days for religion to be taken out of public policy.

Kyev Tatum, pastor of Friendship Rock Baptist Church in Fort Worth, called The T Board's vote «a dangerous precedent» because it only took a matter of days for religion to be taken out of public policy.

«The citizens of the Dover area were poorly served by the members of the Board who voted for the ID Policy.

-- Pat Robertson, after the city of Dover, Pennsylvania voted to boot the current school board, which inst.i.tuted an intelligent design policy that led to a federal trial

«We note that under its 2018 voting policy the Church will not back members of nomination committees where less than 25 % of the board are women.

Members, which include MASIPAG, are entitled to vote on new policies, resolutions, election of World Board members and other important matters.

Park supporters have called the group «s actions extreme and said residents could simply vote incumbents out of office if they are unhappy with park board policy.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jose Oliva, 773.612.2559 Rodger Cooley, 773.354.2091, [email protected] CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD VOTES TO ADOPT GOOD FOOD PURCHASING POLICY The fourth school district in the country to adopt such a policy, -LSB-...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jose Oliva, 773.612.2559 Rodger Cooley, 773.354.2091, [email protected] CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD VOTES TO ADOPT GOOD FOOD PURCHASING POLICY The fourth school district in the country to adopt such a policy, the Good Food Purchasing Program will shift nearly $ 80 million annually in public procurement dollars toward food that is sustainable, -LSB-...]

In June 2017, the Chicago Public School Board voted to adopt the Good Food Purchasing Program as part of its wellness policy.

«It is my personal conviction that Garrett Peck is the strongest candidate to help guide the future policy decisions of the Plainfield Park District,» Hurtado said noting that at the time of his vote for Bettin he was not part of the governing majority of the park board.

«I'm trying to understand how it's going to be enforced,» said board member Rebecca Baim, who voted for the policy despite misgivings about specifics.

The Lake in the Hills Village Board will vote Thursday night on a policy that would give the same legal protections to employees who express milk for their babies as mothers who breast - feed in public.

November 14, 2017 Tony Evers, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Wisconsin, was recently the University of Wisconsin Board of Regent's lone vote against a new policy on freedom of expression.

At The Business Council's Annual Meeting at The Sagamore Resort in Bolton Landing, the Board of Directors voted to create a board - level education policy committee that will focus on educational issues including secondary and post-secondary education and workforce developBoard of Directors voted to create a board - level education policy committee that will focus on educational issues including secondary and post-secondary education and workforce developboard - level education policy committee that will focus on educational issues including secondary and post-secondary education and workforce development.

In reaction to the news that the board of NHS England has voted to defund homeopathy prescriptions, and recommended that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt blacklist homeopathy from being provided on the NHS at all, Humanists UK Director of Public Affairs and Policy Richy Thompson said:

The unlikely alliance of the WFP and state Conservative Party is declaring victory following a judge's ruling that cleared the way for the minor parties» lawsuit over the state Board Elections» policy on so - called «double - voting» to continue.

Just hours before the meeting began, the board decided to table a vote on a gender policy aimed at making district school's more accommodating to transgender students.

In other words, he simply failed to take on board the point that the kind of voting system affects the kind of policies we get in a systematic way.

However, under New York City Board of Elections policy, these voting results are not official.

The existing Panel for Educational Policy, the board that votes on education issues, would be redundant under a board system and would be eliminated.

Before the vote at their Tuesday work session, board members said fire and police officials should enforce the policy strictly during all parades.

In a show of opposition to Governor Cuomo's education policies, Ken - Ton's School Board voted this week to «seriously consider not administering» the state's mandatory math and English tests to students in grades 3 through 8.

This new alliance on the five - member board resulted in votes to rescind both the town's Rules of Procedure in conducting town board meetings, and to rescind a town policy requiring individual town board members obtaining full - board approval before utilizing services of the town attorney.

One of those 3 - 2 votes was to rescind a town policy requiring individual town board members getting full - board approval before utilizing services of the town attorney.

Just days before lawmakers are set to vote on seven members of the board that drives state education policy, WNY delegates remain divided along political and ideological lines about who might best represent the area's students.

She said there is no clear policy as to whether it's appropriate for the full board to vote on an issue in the absence of a committee hearing (she hopes the board will establish a policy in the near future).

«We have a problem in New York State where we create a lot of regulations and hoops for companies to jump through that are duplicative,» said Dottie GallagherCohen, the president of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership and one of three IDA board members who voted against the policy.

When all comments have been collected, the Board will then review and hold a final vote to officially add the amendment to its Uniform Tax Exemption Policy (UTEP).

The agreement to push ahead with the policy came as a surprise to both the public and the commissioners on the board, who said just days ago that they didn't expect to vote on the policy at Thursday's meeting.

June 30: The school board — following a series of closed - door legal hearings since its June 8 action — votes 3 - 1 to remove Johnson as trustee after finding he had disclosed the names and addresses of district employees in violation of district policy.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

The long - discussed issue of the Buffalo School District's gender identity policy was voted on at Wednesday night's meeting of the School Board, and the meeting ended in celebration.